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Negative Quality: QUALITY, kwol'i-tl, in the language of logicians, is used to designate the nature of propositions as affirmative or negative: the proposition "gold is a yellow substance" is of affirmative quality ; "gold is not easily fusible" is a proposition of negative quality.
And if you are shooting mainly for murals, you'd best use an 8 x 10 camera. Smaller film can be used for murals, but the quality is bound to suffer. For display prints to be sold in 11 x 14 or 16 x 20 sizes, a 4 x 5 negative will yield adequate quality, but for murals even the 8 x 10 is none too large. And you should use a fine-grain developer even for the 8 x 10 negatives.
It goes without saying that you'll use the best lens you can get, use filters for dramatic effects, and exercise the utmost in meticulous care to get flawless negatives.
5. Never be too proud to reshoot a poor negative. Did you make an error in exposure? Did your tripod slip and cause a fuzzy negative? Or did you make one of the other dozens of errors which can almost but not quite ruin a negative? If so, do not try to cover up by struggling with the negative by means of darkroom trickery, but instead shoot the picture over again if that is at all possible. To reshoot is to confess a measure of failure to "your client, of course, but you can make up for that by going all-out for a masterpiece on your second try. |
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